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Friday, July 11, 2008

Foreclosure Phil

"Years before Phil Gramm was a McCain campaign adviser and a lobbyist for a Swiss bank at the center of the housing credit crisis, he pulled a sly maneuver in the Senate that helped create today's subprime meltdown."

This is a really important story, because Gramm is one of McCain's closest advisors on the economy, and a likely pick for a major office in a McCain administration.